Refugees

limit and control the passage of vessels carrying refugees and migrants has to be kept in accordance with customary international law and any other international agreements that the coastal state is a party to. However, it is a tricky question to determine whether refugees/migrants who reach the edges of or cross over into the territorial sea are satisfying the requirements of Articles 31 and 33 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (CRSR), including the principle of…

The United States was built on the backs of immigrants, pilgrims, and refugees. Innovation generates great new ideas as thoughts come together. From the industrialization of steel to the invention of the light bulb and telephone, immigrants welcomed into the United States have improved the infrastructure and lives of all Americans. Currently, the Islamic State and civil war in Syria and the Middle East are displacing over twelve million families from their homes. These people flee into the…

are those who welcome these Syrian refugees into their country. The surrounding countries of Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon have sheltered a total of 363,772 refugees since the start of this conflict and these numbers only continue to grow. The European Union has been the second largest group of nations to offer asylum to Syrian refugees, specifically German and Sweden taking in the most. Despite the numerous countries offering aide, the lives of these refugees face daily struggles. From…

Refugees need the right to not be deported. Refugees come to the U.S to be in a safe, equal opportunity country with freedom of religion. Refugees come from unsafe countries and we deport them back, placing them in an unsafe environment. Syrians are living in extremely dangerous environments, many try to leave. According to newsdeeply.com people from Syria are fleeing from “shells and barrel bombs.” 4 million people from Syria have become refugees. 7.6 million others are trying to flee.…

Sieff highlights issues surrounding events of what the United Nations has termed “forced returns” of thousands of refugees, specifically in the case of Nigerians in Cameroon. Sieff informs readers of the thousands of Nigerians that have fled their villages and homes to seek refuge in Cameroon, escaping violent attacks of the Islamist extremists, Boko Haram. Upon escaping, Nigerian refugees are being forced out of Cameroonian villages by the Cameroonian military and other officials, and sent back…

The Rhetoric of Migration in News Media Canada has a long history of humanitarian action welcoming refugees from all over the world. Starting on the year 1776 when 3,000 Black Loyalists came to Canada fleeing the American Revolution, the country has provided refuge to those escaping hardship. Thus, conventional wisdom would dictate that welcoming refugees is embedded in the country’s dominant cultural discourse. To explore this topic, this literature review will focus on three major themes…

to flee from the country. This means they would be refugees in a “haven” in Lebanon. In lebron it was like Dania and her family were strangers in this new country and were struggling to survive. Some of the challenges she has to face are dire conditions, places to live, education, and dangerous diseases. Once Dania and her family got to Lebanon the first challenge they faced was finding a home. Lebanon does not have a lot of places for refugees to live. In the section “Dire Conditions”…

In the year 2014 approximately 59.5 million people were fleeing their countries and crossing international borders looking for refuge, which made them refugees, or were forced out of their homes, but remained in their country for any number of reasons, making them internally displaced people (IDPs). This is a major global issue as there have always been people in these situations, and there still are. We need to attempt to resolve these issues, and we need to do it soon. The question that has…

forced to flee their country of origin and is unable or unwilling return due to fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2015). Refugees are place or held in refugee camps or immigration detention centers where they experience, violence imprisonment, torture, and dangerous travel conditions (Haerens, 2010). As a result these experiences are experienced prior to refugee camps…

that resulted in the bloody ethnic clashes (Magnarella 26). The results of the attacks left more than a thousand Tutsis dead and a little more than a hundred thousand Tutsis that fled Rwanda becoming refugees. A few years later in 1962, the country of Rwanda had become independent. The Tutsi refugees in Burundi tried to launch…